Sue O'Very
Craftsy Instructor

Tampa, Florida

Founder, owner, and designer of Sealed With A Stitch®, Sue O?Very began her professional career as a costume designer.

After years of working in the design field, Sue became a sales manager for a sewing machine dealer, and then served as a National Educator for Babylock, USA. After many years in the home sewing industry, Sue expanded her horizons to travel the globe and developed her expertise as a fashion and accessory designer. ... Read Full Bio »

Founder, owner, and designer of Sealed With A Stitch®, Sue O?Very began her professional career as a costume designer.

After years of working in the design field, Sue became a sales manager for a sewing machine dealer, and then served as a National Educator for Babylock, USA. After many years in the home sewing industry, Sue expanded her horizons to travel the globe and developed her expertise as a fashion and accessory designer. During that time, Sue gained more experience working with unique and challenging textiles including leather.

In 2010, Sue left the corporate world of fashion design to devote full attention to running her small business. Sealed With A Stitch® offers a complete line of sewing patterns, embroidery designs, educational sewing DVDs, and the innovative Think Inside the Hoop® collections. In 2012, Sealed with a Stitch® introduced Sue?s new and clever line of Serge~Broidery® products. Here, she merges the serger and embroidery machine to become Best Friends in creating beautiful works of art that cannot be completed without both machines!

Sealed With A Stitch® has had many articles published in Designs in Machine Embroidery and Creative Machine Embroidery magazines and continues to push the envelope of creativity.

Sue loves to draw, digitize, sew, and create new and different projects. What she loves even more is being with sewing students and machine embroidery enthusiasts. Sue?s real passion is sharing the tips, techniques, and tools that make sewing easy and fun. If you ever get the opportunity to meet Sue, you will find she is full of life, sewing knowledge, and a few jokes too! Find out more about Sue on her website, www.SealedWithAStitch.com.

Sue's Craftsy Classes

Discover stabilizing, trimming and hooping tricks you won’t find anywhere else! Join professional pattern designer Sue O’Very to create five fantastic projects completely in the hoop. Get started with a fast and fun key cover, then work with vinyl to complete a customizable luggage tag. Indulge your inner designer as you mix and match fabrics to create a chic pouch, then insert a zipper and let your machine stitch it in place -- no hand sewing necessary! Stitch up an adorable stuffed fox using appliqué techniques, and work with rehooping to create a charming, heat-resistant owl potholder. Expand the creative potential of your embroidery machine, and complete intricate projects with impressive results!